Merrivale, Dartmoor
Merrivale is a collection of Bronze Age stone rows, burial chambers, standing stones, a stone circle and a settlement. This amazing site can be found a short walk from the B3357 on Dartmoor National Park in Devon. It is near a more modern hamlet of the same name and is in between Tavistock and Two Bridges.
The site is definitely worth a visit however on the day I went it was extremely windy. This made it very hard to film here. Unfortunately, I had no choice other than to heavily put digital stabalizers over it which made it look like all the stones were moving!
Music by Kevin MacLeod
Prehistoric Dartmoor, Merrivale
Inspirational digital postcard of Dartmoor National Park's prehistoric landscape, Merrivale.
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094: Moorlands of Merrivale (Merrivale, Vixen Tor, Pew Tor and Windy Post Cross)
DARTMOOR WALK FEATURING MERRIVALE, VIXEN TOR, PEW TOR AND WINDY POST CROSS
Moorlands of Merrivale”
Filmed 31st October 2017
Running time: 20 minutes
Discovering more of Dartmoor I explore the remains of a prehistoric settlement consisting of a small stone circle, a burial cist and two stone rows. I then follow a four mile walk that takes me to Vixen Tor and Pew Tor, from where there are fantastic views. This walk is particularly appealing to me as it passes a feature, which for me typifies the character of Dartmoor, a huge stone cross standing alone in the bleakness of the moorlands…..
Filmed in Dartmoor in the county of Devon. Locations include Merrivale and the stone rows, Vixen Tor, Pew Tor and Windy Post Cross.
Written, researched, directed, camera and sound, edited and music by Patrick Leach.
Any other names credited in this film, i.e. Bob Morgan and Martin Roy, are pseudonyms, which I used at the time of making this film. However, I no longer use these pseudonyms as I want viewers to be clear that my films are completely my own work.
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Aerial view of Bronze Age hut circles, Merrivale, Dartmoor National Park, UK
Aerial view of Bronze Age hut circles, Merrivale, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, UK, October 2015.
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Merrivale Down on Dartmoor
An overflight and information on Merrivale Down near Tavistock, Devon, England taking in the stone rows and bronze age features found there
Fernworthy, Scorhill and Buttern Hill Stone Circles
Three stone circles on Dartmoor that are relatively close together, plus a number of sites of interest in their vicinity such as the Shuggledown group of stone rows and the prehistoric settlement of Round Pound. Also several other natural landmarks such as the Tolmen Stone and various sights and sounds of Dartmoor. Hope you enjoy.
Dartmoor - Merrivale - Project trailer - Contemporary Western Paganism
A short trailer for the Contemporary Western Paganism group project for Christchurch Placement Based students at Moorlands Bible College.
Filming, photography, video production, narration, and music by Nigel Bailey.
Shot on location at Merrivale and Great Links Tor, Dartmoor National Park, UK
Bronze Age Megalithic Site - Dartmoor Down Tor Stone Circle and Stone Row
Bronze Age Megalithic Site - Dartmoor Down Tor Stone Circle and Stone Row
Amazing prehistoric archaeology
Inspirational digital postcard of a Yellowmead Bronze Age stone circles in Dartmoor National Park. Aerial footage by Alula Media alula.media
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Dartmoor - Hexworthy, Skir Hill, Ter Hill & Wheal Emma Leat
Dartmoor Armchair Walk
Deserted Medieval Village | Hound Tor | 4K
The settlement consists of a cluster of 13th century stone longhouses on land that was originally farmed in the Bronze Age (3000 BC – 1200 BC).
Hound Tor was probably deserted in the early 15th century. From the top of Hound Tor there is a fine view over the abandoned village and the surrounding moors.
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025: Liveliness of Ludlow (Ludlow, Wenlock Edge and Ironbridge)
SHROPSHIRE TOUR FEATURING LUDLOW, WENLOCK EDGE AND IRONBRIDGE
Liveliness of Ludlow
Filmed 21st July 2014
Running time: 18 minutes
I visit the lovely market town of Ludlow in South Shropshire before spending some time touring around the Shropshire hills. Towards the end of my day I find myself reunited with the River Severn in the historic settlement of Ironbridge. The personal family story I began to talk about in the preceding two episodes is also completed in this episode.
Filmed in the county of Shropshire. Locations include Ludlow, Wilderhope Manor and Ironbridge.
Written, researched, directed, camera and sound, edited and music by Patrick Leach.
Any other names credited in this film, i.e. Bob Morgan and Martin Roy, are pseudonyms, which I used at the time of making this film. However, I no longer use these pseudonyms as I want viewers to be clear that my films are completely my own work.
For more details and information check out my website -
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CRHnews - Chelmer Villagers dig in to save Bronze Age paradise
Chelmsford care home plans could lead to 'exciting excavations' of Anglo-Saxon cemetery
By ConorGogarty | Essex Live / Posted: February 01, 2017
A care home could be built on historic land off Chelmer Village Way
Plans for a new Chelmsford care home could see exciting excavations of Anglo-Saxon graves, says a local historian.
Television researcher Alex Marshall revealed the proposed 70-bed facility on land north of Chelmer Village Way could lead to significant historical findings.
It would be built on what was the site of a cemetery between 400 and 500 AD, while it would also involve work on the nearby Springfield Lyons Bronze Age Enclosure, an ancient circular ditch.
Landspring Limited's plans were submitted to Chelmsford City Council on December 19, after they had a similar application rejected in November following a community backlash over potential traffic problems.
According to Mr Marshall, over 250 cremations and burials have been found on the land, as well as knives, necklaces, rings and a horse's head believed to have been sacrificed by pagans.
READ MORE: New Chelmsford care home could be given green light despite plans being scrapped last month
He also praised the plans for the enclosure, which would see trees removed and trimmed to enhance the great crested newt habitat; litter cleared away; and an information board put up.
Mr Marshall said: Any redevelopment in the Springfield area is exciting, as there was a lot of historic activity there.
Based on what I have read in an archaeological report, there is a chance of further graves.
Saying that, a new [Buttercup Montessori] nursery has just finished being built nearby, and nothing was found.
You can never say never though, considering they found that fantastic Tudor oven at the Beaulieu development.
In the late Anglo-Saxon period, the site was adapted into a settlement including timber buildings, halls and possibly a tower.
Mr Marshall believes few locals are aware of the wonderful Springfield Lyons Bronze Age Enclosure.
Some rare artefacts from there are currently in the British Museum, but, from what I know, hardly anyone in Chelmsford even knows the enclosure's there.The plan seems to be quite considerate of the enclosure. I was expecting them to build it slap-bang on top of it.
Currently the entrance to it is very overgrown and the ditch itself strewn with litter, so if the area is cleaned up and ecologically improved, that can only be a good thing.
The enclosure was excavated between 1981 and 1991, after being identified as a cropmark from a plane.
The dig established that the enclosure was a major settlement, probably used as a home for a local chief .It consisted of three roundhouses, including a central roundhouse, and was fortified with considerable ramparts. During this period, the enclosure would have had a breathtaking view across the River Chelmer, allowing the chief to oversee the events of the Chelmer Valley.
The Romans were also there, as Roman tiles and pottery have been recovered from the site.
Rare Bronze Age clay mould fragments used for making swords have been recovered from the enclosure, which are currently housed in the British Museum.
The land was also used during the Iron Age and even World War II.
Mr Marshall said: A sword and scabbard have been recovered from the enclosure from the Iron Age.
The part two-storey and part three-storey care home would include a foyer, cafe, bistro, office, private dining room, gym, cinema and hair salon or spa for residents.
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Exclusive CRHnews update from Rose Moore:
I heard earlier today that the planning application has been REFUSED, which - after 15 months of submission, withdrawal, re-submission and consultation - has come as a great relief.
Your film is as valuable now as it was on Wednesday; promoting this area can only do good! I hope now that Essex Wildlife Trust will partner with us (local residents) and CCC to develop a 'Living Landscapes' community project.
There MAY yet be an appeal by the developers but, if that comes to pass, we hope that the Planning Inspectorate will agree that this is unique, historic area, deserving of so much more than a car park. I'll keep in touch!
* Should Essex County Council and Chelmsford City Council consider re-creating the Bronze Age enclosure at Springfield Lyons as was done here as a tourist and study centre?
* If you have a heritage promotion, if no one else can produce a You Tube video, and if you can find us, you can hire the CRH-Team - for free!
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Ancient Markings Combpyne Devon
Dartmoor Hut Circle, Neolithic Kistvaen, Bronze Age roundhouses
Edwardian Farm clip plus images added to illustrate what Alex Langlands describes. Dartmoor is an area of moorland in south Devon, England. It boasts an estimated 5,000 hut circles still surviving, despite the fact that many have been raided over the centuries by the builders of the traditional dry stone walls. These are the remnants of Bronze Age houses. The smallest are around 1.8 m (6 ft) in diameter, and the largest may be up to five times this size.
Some have L-shaped porches to protect against wind and rain; some particularly good examples are to be found at Grimspound. It is believed that they would have had a conical roof, supported by timbers and covered in turf or thatch.
Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall. It was first settled about 1300 BC. The 24 hut circles are surrounded by a massive granite perimeter wall, which may have stood at 1.7 metres in places. The roundhouses, with an average diameter of 3.4 metres, were each built of a double ring of granite slabs with a rubble infill - a technique still used in dry-stone walling. one, Hut 3, has a surviving porchway, with the two jamb stones still upright, although the lintel has fallen.
The roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, originally built in western Europe, using walls made of stone or wooden posts joined by wattle-and-daub panels, and a conical thatched roof. Roundhouses ranged in size from less than 5m in diameter to over 15m.
Roundhouses were the standard form of housing built in Britain from the Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age and well into the Sub Roman period. They used walls made either of stone or of wooden posts joined by wattle-and-daub panels and a conical thatched roof and ranged in size from less than 5m in diameter to over 15m. The Atlantic roundhouse, Broch and Wheelhouse styles were used in Scotland. The remains of many Bronze Age roundhouses can still be found scattered across open heathland, such as Dartmoor, as granite 'hut circles'.
There are also numerous kistvaens, Neolithic stone box-like tombs. A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape. If set completely underground, it may be covered by a tumulus.
One of the most numerous kinds of kistvaen are the Dartmoor kistvaens. These often take the form of small rectangular pits about 3 ft. (0.9 m) long by 2 feet (0.6 m) wide. The kistvaens were usually covered with a mound of earth and surrounded by a circle of small stones. When a body was placed in the kistvaen, it was usually lain in a contracted position. Sometimes however the body was cremated with the ashes placed in a cinerary urn.
The majority of the prehistoric remains on Dartmoor date back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Indeed, Dartmoor contains the largest concentration of Bronze Age remains in the United Kingdom, which suggests that this was when a larger population moved onto the hills of Dartmoor. The large systems of Bronze Age fields, divided by reaves, cover an area of over 10,000 hectares (39 sq mi) of the lower moors.
The climate at the time was warmer than today, and much of today's moorland was covered with trees. The prehistoric settlers began clearing the forest, and established the first farming communities. Fire was the main method of clearing land, creating pasture and swidden types of fire-fallow farmland. Areas less suited for farming tended to be burned for livestock grazing. Over the centuries these Neolithic practices greatly expanded the upland moors, and contributed to the acidification of the soil and the accumulation of peat and bogs.
After a few thousand years the mild climate deteriorated leaving these areas uninhabited and consequently relatively undisturbed to the present day.
Protected by National Park status, Dartmoor National Park covers 954 square kilometres (368 sq mi). The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife. The highest point is High Willhays, 621 m (2,037 ft) above sea level. The entire area is rich in antiquities and archaeology.
Playlist: Shelter - Mesolithic, Viking, Medieval - roundhouse, longhouse, Norse town, British domestic history
Recreating first house (Coast):
Hound Tor | Dartmoor National Park | 4K
According to legend, this Tor was created when a pack of ancient hounds were turned into stone, hence the name ‘Hound Tor’.
It is also thought to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’.
Also! The 1975 episode ‘The Sontaran Experiment’ of Doctor Who was filmed here!
Grimspound Dartmoor Canon EOS M Cinestar8
Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall. The name was first recorded by the Reverend Richard Polwhele in 1797 - it was probably derived from the Anglo Saxon god of war, Grim (more commonly known as Woden, or Odin).
In 1893 an archaeological dig was carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, which recorded many details of Grimspound as well as, controversially, making a reconstruction of the site.
Dartmoor National Park
Hey Guys,
I hope you enjoyed this video of The Dartmoor National Park and it's diverse landscape and places of interest.
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Luke
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Descending Sheepstor | Dartmoor National Park 4K
Descending Sheepstor on Dartmoor National Park. It's amazing being somewhere miles from others!
Filmed in 4K on a GoPro Hero 7 Black just clipped to my rucksack